xp home vs xp pro

[Raven]

hi.

is there any short comprehensive page showing the differences between home and pro versions of xp ?

Regards

Raven

 

[Ty07allstar]

Yes there is a difference. What I have been told is that Pro is better for gaming and is a bit faster then Home and also there is a huge price difference.

 

[Dav0s]

very minimal difference, other than price

generally pro is better for networking, but for everyday gaming/surfing etc you wont notice a difference

 

[Ty07allstar]

Are you sure? When I asked that question someone said it was better for gaming and general use because it was faster.

 

[jiffz]

Not really worth in difference in price though unless you suck so much at games that you need every bit of an advantage! :rollingla

 

[FragTek]

The only thing that I've noticed between Home and Pro is that Pro offers more advanced networking features for attaching to domains etc. Other than that and a different boot logo color that's about all I've noticed.

 

[PV5150]

Hi Raven

Afaik the speed difference between the two are neglible, if any, they are built using the same kernel. But, where the Pro version surpasses the home edition is in the area of networking, just like Dav0s said previously.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/evaluation/compare.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx

 

[Raven]

not much talk in pro's favor but one question remains.

if i buy an oem version tomorrow, can i still use it if i buy a c2d cpu new motherboard and a ati graphics card ?

read somewhere its locked to the hardware

 

[nathan]

doing this in my mcp studies, pro includes the following that home doesnt;

dynamic disks,

remote desktop

ntfs and print permissions

encrypting file system,

domain membership

dual processors

iis

straight out of a microsft training kit.

EDIT: you can use it, it may require you to reinstall windows (imo, best to do it anyways when changing this much hardware). It will prob bluescreen when you boot with new hardware. this is caused by HAL (hardware abstraction layer)